title: Transmission and trapping of cold electrons in water ice.
abstract: Experiments are reported which show that currents of low energy ("cold") electrons pass unattenuated through crystalline ice at 135 K for energies between zero and 650 meV, up to the maximum studied film thickness of 430 bilayers, indicating negligible apparent trapping. By contrast, both porous amorphous ice and compact crystalline ice at 40 K show efficient electron trapping. Ice at intermediate temperatures reveals metastable trapping that decays within a few hundred seconds at 110 K. Our results are the first to demonstrate full transmission of cold electrons in high temperature water ice and the phenomenon of temperature-dependent trapping.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Balog
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cicman
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Field
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Feketeová
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hoydalsvik
authors.forename: Nykola C
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Field
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ziesel